Richard will be speaking at a Sierra Club meeting today.

From Big Island Chronicle:

Richard Ha will speak about “Geothermal and Peak Oil” at a Sierra Club meeting Wednesday, April 28, 2010, at the Ola’a Community Center in Kea’au (across from McDonalds). A potluck at 5:30 p.m. will precede the meeting slated for 6 p.m. Ha had the large banana farm in the Kea’au area before becoming the Hamakua tomato farm producer he is today….(read more)

If you’ve read this blog before, you know that geothermal and peak oil are topics Richard feels strongly about and has been concerned about for a long time.

“I happen to believe  the world has changed and that we need to make the right energy choices for future generations,” he said. “Geothermal is proven technology, it does not depend on subsidies to make it work, it’s cheap, it doesn’t emit greenhouse gases and it is a resource for the people of Hawai‘i.”